Blasting the continuum of history: Walter Benjamin’s “Now-Time” and the recovery of experience
Abstract: This paper analyses the concept of “nowtime” (Jetztzeit) in Walter Benjamin’s “On the concept of history.” It shows its centrality in Benjamin’s philosophy of history, by defining it in opposition to two elements of Kantian philosophy: on the one hand, “empty, homogeneous time,” on...
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Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filosofía, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia
2022
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| Sumario: | Abstract: This paper analyses the concept of “nowtime”
(Jetztzeit) in Walter Benjamin’s
“On the concept of history.” It shows
its centrality in Benjamin’s philosophy
of history, by defining it in opposition
to two elements of Kantian philosophy:
on the one hand, “empty, homogeneous
time,” on the other, the faith in the infinite,
inevitable progress of a generic
“mankind.” It argues that the notions
of now-time and truth as flitting hark
back to Benjamin’s early concern about
the devaluation of experience in modern
philosophy and the need to rescue
the ephemeral as a decisive element in
metaphysics. Rather than a historical
category, now-time denotes an instance
of redemption. |
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